Smith's done, he's had a good and long run in Oregon. Unfortunately, the political climate and voter base in the state is not in keeping with his fairly moderate and bi-partisan track record.

With regard to flip-flops, don't you liberal "pots" go too far off the deep-end calling the Republican pol "kettles" black.

For every Gordon Smith out there, there are plenty of John Kerrys or Barack Obamas.

If you Google "Obama flip-flop" it returns about 771,000 results. And we've months to go before the election -- many months more to expose and perform even more flip-flops with this candidate.

The latest Obama flip-flop biggie is the campaign financing one. Even dyed-in-the-wool libs were angry with that one. But did you see it discussed on this blog? The Dynamic Duo of Jack and Bill have been remarkably silent about that one....